Word: pound
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...hostile takeover of a community. Ultimately, the working-class people who live there, including many recent immigrants, are no match for the sheer purchasing power of the University and its constituents. The fragile ecosystem of the Allston community will get crushed underfoot no matter how gingerly the 800-pound gorilla that is Harvard places its steps...
...wanted to live in the airport, I would do that. I want to run more of a friendly place.” And then there was the time when one of her regulars, a professor at Harvard Business School, asked how many cups of coffee she made from a pound of coffee beans; he wanted to help her increase the shop’s efficiency. Josefina’s response was, with characteristic bohemian spiritidness, “Ha! If I have $1 after expenses, I say to myself: ‘I am making money...
...trio serving all their time in federal lockup. Attorneys for the three men are seeking a federal minimum of seven years, with any state sentence to run concurrently. Alabama prosecutors may still demand at least seven years jail time for each crime. "In this case, everyone wants their pound of flesh," says DeBusk's attorney Brett Bloomston...
...daughter. Here the miller is a middle-class man over hid head in debts for the wedding of his daughter Rosalba (glamorous, poised Laura Chiatti). Geremia lends the family more money than they can afford to pay and then, on the wedding day, extracts from Rosalba his own predatory pound-of-flesh interest on the loan...
...phone call until Thursday afternoon, when VeriPack told him that they needed additional information to process the order. A second delay was experienced when the boxes—already late—did not get onto a UPS truck for the Friday rounds, meaning that the over-1,000-pound order would not make it to Harvard Yard until Monday. Campillo said that at 11:30 on Monday morning a UPS driver called to tell him that he had arrived—at 8 Holworthy Place, in Boston. The driver eventually arrived on campus, but as he was unfamiliar with...